Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3187, John Earhart, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Earhart, John Margaret
R. 3187
CONTENTS

State of New Jersey } Middlesex County } ss
Dec r 20 th 1844 I. Isaac Smith Minister
of St Peter Church Spotswood, in the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Mrs. Margaret Earhart the applicant for a pension, in the foregoing declaration in virtue of the services of her husband deceased, is now a member of my Church in the Village of Spotswood in good standing and has been a member of said Church for more than Seventy years past, and is Esteemed a worthy and Exemplary Chris- tian and whose statement under all circumstances are entitled to full faith and credit
Sworn to and Subscribed before,
on the 20 th day of Dec r 1844
John Perrine Judge & Justice of the Peace
Isaac Smith
State of New Jersey } I. Isaac Smith Minister of St Peters Church Middlesex County } in the Village of Spotswood, in the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Mrs.
Ann Smith the Subscriber to the foregoing affidavit in the case of the marriage of her said Sister Margaret Earhart to John Earhart dec d is a member of my Church in the said Village of Spotswood, County & State aforesaid and is in good and Respectable Standing and who is Esteemed as a Christian and a Lady of unclouded Veracity, and whose Statements are entitled to full faith and Credit,
Sworn to and Subscribed
before me the 20 th Dec r 1844
John Perrine Justice of the Peace
Isaac Smith

State of New Jersey, Middlesex County and Township of Montgomery  Montgomery ss. On this Thirtieth day of November A.D. 1814
Personally appeared before me Merrill Mumey one of the Judges of the inferior court of common pleas in and for the said County
Mrs. Margaret Warheart a resident of the State, County and Township of aforesaid Aged Eighty two years of age who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed for the benefit and relief of the widows of the officers and soldiers who served in the defense of the rights of these United States in the war of the rebellion and says she is the widow of John Warheart deceased who served in the revolutionary war as a soldier and who served as she has been informed and believed under the following named officers viz Captain John Warheart in the year 1776 at different times and places viz at Perth Amboy and also at several other times at the same and other places under Captain Johnston and Captain Dye and that she served some of the time in Elizabeth Town and in the year 1778 was called into Monmouth County and was in the battle of Monmouth as she was then and has always since understood by her said husband and others who served with him in the army and at that time he was under Colonel Nelson as she has always understood and Captain John Warheart and she further says she was well acquainted with her said husband in her child- hood as they were brought up children in the same neighborhood where she this deponent now resides and where her said husband lived and died in the year A.D. 1804 and to whom she was married and joined in Wedlock in the year A.D. 1785 in the month of June by the Reverend Mr. Ares who was then the settled minister of the township of Shrewsbury  Shrewsbury and she does not recollect of ever having a marriage certificate but says if she had it has been lost as she has no knowledge of it now and that she produces the best proof of her marriage that the nature of her case will admit

and further says that she was engaged to be married to John Earhart deceased prior to or about the commencement of the revolutionary war. But in consequence of the war and he being called into the service as a soldier their marriage was postponed until after the war as before stated and she further says that her said husband deceased died during the whole war at all times and places in the southern and western parts of the country, being a company of British on Brims Island and also under the protection of the regulations of that day in this state as before stated as she this respondent was intimately acquainted with him and knew of his turning out from time to time and she now claims her pension according to the provisions of the act passed for that purpose in virtue of the services of her said husband John Earhart deceased and for practicing under the act during the her right of claim she hereby certifies constituted and appointed William Kimball Maye of New York as her lawful attorney and to transact and correspond as directed.
Her Margaret Earhart Matri.  My dear friend and sister Mary Wm. Maye
My dear sister I am well acquainted with Mrs. Margaret Earhart the widow of John Earhart deceased who is the applicant for a pension in the following declaration and I support the same in every particular and I have known her personally for many years and know her to be a respectable lady and who is universally esteemed as such in the neighborhood where she has always resided and where she is considered a person of truth and veracity and whose statements I consider entitled to all confidence.
30 November 1844  Merill Murray

State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss. On this day personally appeared the  Merrill  one of the  one of the  judges of the  judges of the  inferior court of common  inferior court of common  plea in and for the said County  plea in and for the said County No. 2... Dec 1844
Personally appeared before me Merrill Munday one of the Judges of the inferior court of common plea in and for the said County. I know Ann Smith a resident of the State of New Jersey and the person described to me to be the person described to me as being mentally and physically according to law both an untruth disease and so she is a sister to the said Margaret Barthart the affiant in the foregoing deposition and knows her like the widow of John Barthart deceased as she this deponent was present at her own getting hand and saw her said sister Margaret Mary married to John Barthart by the Reverend Mr. Ared in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five which time and place she is present of by her own free will and though a child at that time she distinctly recollects her sister Margaret Mary's marriage of the said Margaret to John Barthart on account of her husband John being called into the Lord's in the Army - and after the war after the said John Barthart returned home they were married by their father's consent which this deponent knows by being a sister to the said Margaret and being born and brought up in the same family together and being present and saw the said Margaret and John married as aforesaid. Dated to and subscribed on this day and year first above written Before me Merrill Munday
Ann Smith Monk
I do hereby certify I am acquainted with Mrs. Ann Smith the person described in the foregoing affidavit and know her to be a respectable lady and so universally considered in this neighborhood where she has always resided. Furthermore I know her to be esteemed as a lady of truth and veracity and whose statements in the foregoing affidavit I consider entitled to full credence as such
Merrill Munday Judge
Spencer N. Jan 30 1844
Ann Smith Minister of Gospel

7 State of New Jersey, Middlesex County, ss. I, Nicholas Boorman Clerk of the County of Middlesex aforesaid do hereby certify that Merrell Mundy Esquire before whom the foregoing cause a cause of action of trespass on the case and assumpsit of John Smith was made to appear & David Fitz Roy Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Service of Process was taken here Respectfully In sign of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County only Commission at Salem, at the date of the making said order and before said officers and their respective signatures to the several of said and several affidavits I hereby certify the same to be Genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 3 rd day of December A D 1841.
N B B Allen Clerk

State of New Jersey Middlesex County of Northfield and Township of New Brunswick 8 day of December 1844
Personally appeared before me David G. Randolph one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County.
David Johnston a resident of the State County and Township of said aged Eighty four years on the seventeenth day of the present month who being personally known to me and first duly sworn ac- cording to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is personally acquainted with Mrs. Margaret Earheart the widow of John Earheart deceased and who is the applicant for a pension in the foregoing declaration in virtue of the services of her said husband which were rendered in the revolutionary war and with whom this deponent was also well acquainted in and during the life of the said Earheart and with whom he served in the revolutionary war in the defence of the rights of these United States under the same officers and in the same company at part of the time. Did in the year 1776 in the month of June they were called out under Captain John Woglin and stationed one town at Perth Amboy and the second town in the month of August of the same year under the same officers at Woodbury New Jersey. This deponent also served with the said John Earheart several other times and places during that war. And in the year 1777 this deponent rendered three months service in the same company under three different Captains with the said John Earheart and they were stationed most of the time in Greenbury. The Captains under whom they served as aforesaid were Captain John Woglin

Captain Dyer and Captain Johnston. And in the Year 1777 they were called out to guard the Frontiers as before and they took their regular monthly tours and were stationed three months at Powder Hook
And in the same Year they served three months most of the time stationed at Cranbury under the Command of Captain Dyer and Captain Johnston
And in the Year 1778 they were called into Monmouth County under Captain Wayne and fought under him at the battle of Monmouth in the month of June - And in September of the same Year they were stationed one tour at Elizabeth Town and they also served at different times and places taking their regular monthly tours according to the requisitions of that day and during the subsequent period of the revolutionary war this detachment was with the said John Earhart frequently in service but the exact times and places he cannot so particularly identify but knows he the said Earhart served frequently in the defence of the rights of the United States and this detachment further states that he believes the said Earhart served two years or more and he further states that he himself is a pensioner in virtue of his own services rendered in the revolutionary war and that his belief is the said Earhart rendered equal service with himself and therefore his widow he considers a deserving

to land equally entitled to the benefits of the provisions of the same. And he further says that the said Earlhart was once taken a prisoner by the enemy and confined in the City of New York nine months at the close of the war in 1861 & 1865 I do hereby subscribe on the day and year first above General Johnston written
D. Fitz Randolph, Judge etc
I hereby certify that well acquainted with Mr. D. Fitz Randolph the subscriber to the foregoing affidavit has heard him him for many years and knows him to be a respectable and worthy man and who is universally so considered in his place where he now and always has resided and who is regarded as a man of truth and integrity and whose statements in the foregoing affidavit I consider entitled to full confidence as such D. Fitz Randolph, Judge etc

Amaziquet Eackart
Oct 1835
Upper
La

State of New Jersey County of Middlesex
Be it Known, that on this fourteenth day of March A. D. 185 3 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Peter Earhart
resident of Woodbridge in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the son of John Earhart the mother Mary (Earhart) the identical man who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of:
that he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT , of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of John Earhart deceased for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Lawrenceville Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Peter Earhart
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Peter Earhart to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
Peter P. Hargrave
State of New Jersey County of Middlesex
It is hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County that Peter Earhart the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the son of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that Peter P. Hargrave Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this fourteenth day of March 185 3 A Boorsem Clerk
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address. 3. "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are"—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of"—11. Magistrate's name.—12. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

See let to Wm K. Hoyt March 21. 1845.
3187

3187
P. O.
Margaret Carhart
Service:
wid. of John
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
Recognized. _____
Contract. _____
Cert. of Dis. _____
Searched for _____
, 18

State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss On this Fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty five, before the subscriber a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Personally appeared Lewis Johnstone of the City of Brunswick, in the eighty fifth year of his age, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith, that he has received a copy of an affidavit from the Pension Office purporting to be his, a part of which is true, and a part he knows not to be true the same differing from the affidavit as it were read was read to him by a person calling himself William K. Hoyst of New York. (Deponent now proceeds to State and declare what service he knows of John Earhart late of Middlesex County in the Revolutionary War according to the best of his recollection and belief, viz In 1775 one monthly tour under Capt Woglan at Perth Amboy, and one tour in August the same year at Howles hook, In 1777 three tours at Cranberry in said County of Middlesex as follows one under Capt Johnson one under Capt Woglan and one under Capt Woglan or Capt Day he is not sure which In 1778 one tour in June under Capt Woglan and were en- gaged in the battle of Monmouth, One tour in September of the same year at Elizabeth town, Deponent under Capt Woglan and the said John Earhart under Capt Day The foregoing are all the tours he can specify, Deponent being afterwards in the State Troops he often saw said Earhart in the Militia service, The County of Middlesex suffering almost con- stant invasion by the Enemy which required continual Militia service, he believes said Earhart performed two years service or more during the War
The following extract contained in the copy of the affidavit furnished at his request by the Department

as follows" and he further says that the said Declaration was once taken a prisoner by the enemy and confined in the city of New York some months at the last of the war in 1782 & 1783 " he declares was not read to him nor anything like it when he subscribed his name to the affidavit that the same must have been designedly done by omitting to read that part (as well as other parts) of the affidavit or by adding the same after deponent had subscribed it, he being fully satisfied said John Garhank was never where prisoner, Deponent would not have signed an affidavit under any circumstances containing such state- ments, His affidavit was made from the purest motives to benefit the widow of a meritorious soldier, and nothing else, he does not know that the same conflicts in any important particular with his declaration made many years since, and since he is that nothing was farther from his intention than to make any misstatements in a matter which did not at all concern him, The loss of his Pension which he knows he has well earned in the defence of his country gives him much less anxiety, than that a shade should rest upon his hitherto untarnished good name, So near the grave as he feels himself to be this presses upon him with distressing weight, and he ardently desires that it may be removed before he goes to "that bourne from whence no traveller returns"
Sworn and subscribed this day one year last above mentioned before me { Lewis Johnston Peter P. Nuyson Judge {
I hereby certify that I am heren- -ally acquainted with Lewis Johnston who has signed the above affidavit and know him to be a person of integrity and truth whose character and standing in society is of the highest order
I concur with the foregoing certificate of Judge Nuyson J. H. Randolph Judge of the Sup. Ct. N. Jersey

The undersigned takes pleasure in certify- ing that Lewis Johnson is a member in good & regular standing in the 1 st Presbyterian Church in the city of New Brunswick; & that he bears the character, in the community, of an honest, upright, & conscientious citizen.
(Signed)
Robert Davidsone, Pastor of the 1 st Presb. Ch.
New Brunswick } July 7, 1845. }
State of New Jersey Miscellaneous County of Nicholas Woodruff Clerk of the County of Middlesex of freeholder do hereby certify that Peter P. Runyon Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Lewis Johnson was taken was at the time of the taking said affidavit a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Middlesex duly commissioned therefor & that his signature to the said affidavit & certificate thereon are genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County at New Brunswick this 7 th day of July AD 1845
N B 807 Allen Ct
I have been well acquainted with Mr Lewis John- ston for forty years, during which term he has always maintained a high character for truth & integrity
N B 807 Allen Ct Middlesex County N Jersey

Margaret Earhart
N. J. John
Act. 7 th July 38

New York Dec 25 th 1844
Mrs L. Edwards Esq
for
Thro. with enclose to you the declaration accompanying for a of in respect of the claim of Mrs. Easton of Spalswood St. knowing they will receive your earliest and most attention
I am Sir very respectfully
Your humble
W. K. Hoyt
no 97 Burrow Street

New Brunswick N.J. April 30 th 1845.
Dear Sir
I have received with much regret your letter of the 22 d of March past, in which you state, "that my deposition in the case of Margaret Barkart conflicts so essentially with the Statement made in my declaration, that it authorizes a distrust of my right to a pension, the Department is at a loss to which of my Statements it should give its confidence. It is for me to reconcile these discrepancies with my right to a continuation of my Pension."
My declaration is supported with indisputable proof, and my services were justly and honestly set forth. The testimony by me given in regard to the services of John Barkart, was stated by a person calling his name William H. Hoeyt of New York to me a stranger, and to the best of my recollection I said nothing conflicting with my services in the Revolution unless I have been imposed upon by him. Will the Department forward to me a copy of the affidavit, that I may know what it contains? I have been greatly afflicted with Rheumatism the past season, and my frame ripened with the frosts of eighty four winters, I thank a kind providence that I

am Still preserved with a reasonable mind which suffers much to that even a shade of imputation should rest a moment upon the faithful and honest intentions of one, who periled all for his once oppressed but now happy Country.
I am with respect your friend & aged servant
Louis T. Benton
Honorable
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions